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North America’s only safe injection site for drug addicts will remain open. The Canadian government wanted to close Vancouver’s Insite clinic, where addicts can inject under medical supervision. But the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled the government must consider the initiative’s benefits. “The clinic saves lives and improves public order.”
A large trial began yesterday in Vancouver of a pig farmer who is alleged to have murdered dozens of street prostitutes. The women vanished from the city’s rough Downtown Eastside neighbourhood. For years, nothing was done about the disappearances.
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